The Visitors

LP/cassette, Side A:

1. The Visitors (Crackin’ Up)

2. Head Over Heels

3. When All Is Said And Done

4. Soldiers

Side B:

1. I Let The Music Speak

2. One Of Us

3. Two For The Price Of One

4. Slipping Through My Fingers

5. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room

Released:

RCA LP: VPL1-6607
Gatefold sleeve
CASSETTE VPK1-6607
Released 14 December 1981
[LP release date code A1281F]

POLAR/UNIVERSAL “BACK TO BLACK” LP: 00602527346540 ^
Released 12 August 2011

POLAR/UNIVERSAL PICTURE DISC LP: 0602508379895 *^
Released 1 July 2022

* ABBA online store exclusive
^ made in EU, imported through Universal Music

Charts:

Kent Report chart entry: #37 28 December 1981
Highest position: #22 18 January 1982
Final entry: #99 15 March 1981
Weeks in chart: 12

LP 1981:

Cassette 1981:

LP 2011:

LP 2022:

Credits:

Benny Andersson: keyboards, synthesizers, vocals
Ola Brunkert: drums
Agnetha Fältskog: vocals
Rutger Gunnarsson: bass
Janne Kling: flute, clarinet
Per Lindvall: drums (The Visitors, Soldiers)
Anni-Frid Lyngstad: vocals
Björn Ulvaeus: guitar, vocals
Mike Watson: bass
Lasse Wellander: guitar
The Three Boys: mandolins on ‘One Of Us’

Digitally recorded and mixed at Polar Music Studio, Stockholm: March – November 1981

Album design: Rune Söderqvist
Photo: Lars Larsson
Photographed at Julius Kronbergs ateljie, Skansen, Stockholm

Produced and arranged by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus

Engineered by Michael B. Tretow

℗ 1981 Polar Music International AB, Stockholm
© 1981 Polar Music International AB, Stockholm

The Visitors

CD:

1. The Visitors

2. Head Over Heels

3. When All Is Said And Done

4. Soldiers

5. I Let The Music Speak

6. One Of Us

7. Two For The Price Of One

8. Slipping Through My Fingers

9. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room

Extra tracks remastered CD 1997:

10. Should I Laugh Or Cry

11. The Day Before You Came

12. Under Attack

13. You Owe Me One

Bonus tracks reissued CD 2001:

10. Should I Laugh Or Cry

12. The Day Before You Came

13. Cassandra

14. Under Attack

Bonus tracks Deluxe Edition CD 2012:

10. Should I Laugh Or Cry [count-in version]

11. I Am The City

12. You Owe Me One

13. Cassandra

14. Under Attack

15. The Day Before You Came

Extra bonus track 2012 Deluxe Edition 2012:

16. From A Twinkling Star To A Passing Angel (demos)

DVD Deluxe Edition 2012:

1. Two For The Price Of One (Dick Cavett Meets ABBA)

2. Slipping Through My Fingers (Dick Cavett Meets ABBA)

3. When All Is Said And Done (original promo clip)

4. ABBA In London, November 1982 (The Late Late Breakfast Show, BBC)

5. ABBA In Stockholm, November 1983 (Nöjesmaskinen, SVT)

6. The Visitors TV Commercial I (UK)

7. The Visitors TV Commercial II (Australia)

8. The Singles – The First Ten Years TV Commercial I (UK)

9. The Singles – The First Ten Years TV Commercial II (Australia)

10. International Sleeve Gallery

Release:

POLAR CD: POLCD 342 1
Released 1983
Later replaced by POLYDOR CD: 800 011-2 2

POLYDOR CD: 800 011-2 3
CASSETTE: 800 011-4
Released 11 June 1990

POLYDOR “THE ABBA REMASTERS” CD: 533 978-2 3
Released 26 May 19978

POLAR REMASTERED CD: 549 957-2 4
DIGIPAK 549 965-2 5
Released 16 July 2001

DELUXE EDITION CD/DVD: 00602527924779
Released 27 April 2012

1 made in West Germany, imported through RCA
2 initial copies made in West Germany, imported through RCA; later copies made in Australia
3 initial copies made in West Germany, imported through PolyGram; later copies made in Australia
4 initial copies made in EU, imported through Universal Music; later copies made in Australia
5 made in EU, imported through Universal Music

The Visitors

Half-speed remaster

LP1, Side A:

1. The Visitors
2. Head Over Heels

Side B:

1. When All Is Said And Done
2. Soldiers

LP 2, Side C:

1. I Let The Music Speak
2. One Of Us

Side D:

1. Two For The Price Of One
2. Slipping Through My Fingers
3. Like An Angel Passing Through My Room

Polar LP: 00602445271108 *
Released 1 December 2023

* made in EU, imported through Universal Music